You're toying with the poor guy like a cat with a mouse. It's amusing but quite brutal to watch.
Back atcha, Cope. We must amuse ourselves, after all.
On a serious note, I sometimes care too much about educating those who clearly need it.
Honor is all about defending one's good NAME, their reputation amongst their fellow man... but you are an Alt!
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His name, his reputation amongst men, is his to cultivate and protect.
You evidently do not know what “honour” is. Honour is an internal, self-generated quality.
You speak of mere public image, in the manner of
a narcissist who lives through his reflection in the eyes of others. You are worried about embarrassment. You are unworried, if you can escape embarrassment. In essence, you pass through life like a politician.
On this forum, I have entrusted my life savings to completely untraceable parties who could have vanished—who
did eventually vanish, but vanished honourably despite the world’s greatest opportunity for an exit-scam. I trusted those who were honourable. Could I trust you?
“His name, his reputation amongst men...” Would you betray my trust and steal my life savings, if you could simply delete that identity without affecting your “real” name and reputation?
Now, on the flipside, observe that it is impossible to embarrass me. There are some scum who have been obsessively trolling me, insulting me and smearing me with viciousness bounded only by the (in)abilities of their uncreative minds. I ignore them. Personally, I care aught for their opinions; and I know that anyone who takes them seriously is a fool. Yet I reply to Jay, when he didn’t do even a thousandth as badly; for some reason, I care what Jay says. Did you pause to wonder why? (Did Jay take pause?)
This is an internet forum, and since you have only been here a few weeks, you don't even have any reasonable investment into building a reputation for your current Alt Identity.
LOL, you are pretty much just totally clueless. You are new here, so I will cut you a break.
By the way, did you notice that in about four weeks of active posting, my account attained more of those almighty merits than yours has in more than a year? It happened by accident—when I don’t care, and when some merit sources personally hate me. Well, now, even by the abysmal standards of this forum, “death_wish” is objectively worth more than “Copetech”. But that is entirely beside the point: You are clueless.If we're really interested we can sign back in under a different Alt and start building a temporary illusion of a name, a reputation as far as one can be applied to a BBS Persona.
I suppose you didn’t notice all of the idiots who are obsessively speculating on my identity. (The first to do so
overtly and indiscreetly was Jay; perhaps I should have taken that as an indication.) If you have them all ignore-listed, that is wise of you; but I suspect that you just somehow didn’t notice.
Although I neither admit nor deny any of that speculation, it goes to show that your proposition is absurd.
Any new identity of mine will attract such speculation; whether it is correct or incorrect, the speculation itself will follow me around. You have no such concerns, for there is nothing special about you.
Unique little snowflakes have the luxury of anonymity: They are all alike. Fungible and indistinguishable.
I am truly unique. In style and substance. There is only one of me in this world. The content of my thoughts is itself a globally unique identifier—my
soul is unique, in a mythopoetic sense.
(Ironically, the same trolls who are mentally fixated on pursuing my identity will thereupon accuse me of arrogance, perhaps even of grandiosity. They themselves inadvertently help to show the world just how special I am!)
It has happened that Internet wannabe-sleuths somehow dug up obscure, years-old writings from remote corners of the Internet, and allegedly connected my identities. I never admitted or denied those allegations, either. As an expert on privacy issues, I do find this annoying; but I was impressed at the grossly obsessive effort I inspired to attempt locating and linking my Internet pseudonyms, none of which can be connected to my “real” dox. I was never accused of any fraud, or any other wrongdoing which may reasonably motivate people to investigate my identity. Yet someone out there must have invested endless hours trying to track me down—for no reason but that
I’m so special. Lulz.
And you, “Copetech”? Does anyone care who you are? Is there any reason to?
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